Episodio 2: Ozzy Lita Ford Close my eyes forever year 1988 english

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00:00:43 - Dickinson. Want to see us. And you know I mean first of all we love you know we love doing it. It's really a kind of privilege to be, you know, 51 years old. I'm being able to go out just still to have a voice.

00:01:07 - Lemmy.

00:01:08 - Well, it's spelled differently than everything. It's called orgasmatron.

00:01:12 - Rudd Helford.

00:01:13 - I think are useful just because of the fact that with what I try and do it's important trying.

00:01:25 - Eric Clapton and Paul Stanley.

00:01:27 - But piano was inconceivable, I mean you can't, you can't just gotten by a piano or his guitar is much more accessible.

00:01:34 - I think I was very driven period, it was to compensate, to make myself feel more worthy.

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00:02:11 - Ozzy was playing in the studio in 1988, when he suddenly had an idea, and he wrote a song that would become one of his most enduring, powerful ballads.

00:02:25 - Close My Eyes Forever, Co-written and Songed With.

00:02:29 - Lita Ford, who at the time was directed by Ozzy's wife, Sharon, would end on Ford's third solo album, Lita.

00:02:41 - This song is very melodic, Lita and Ozzy complement each other very well, it was a successful formula.

00:02:50 - Ford and Osborn sporting unintentionally identical hairstyles, would become an MTV staple and show the softer side of the Prince of Darkness to a wider audience.

00:03:00 - Ozzy recalled, she was.

00:03:03 - Being managed by my wife, I went to the studio and it was half written.

00:03:08 - So I went back to England the following week, and my wife called me on the phone and said,

00:03:12 - Do you know the song you were writing and I say, What song she said, That song, Lita wants to come and work it with you, she recalled.

00:03:21 - So I fly back to LA and do the song and I was like, You know what, Lita?

00:03:26 - You can have there.

00:03:27 - I don't want anything from her.

00:03:32 - You can have the song, Sharon Osborn remember, She reminded metal underground, close my

00:03:37 - My eyes forever was a mistake.

00:03:39 - It was just me, Ozzy and Sharon hanging around the recording studio.

00:03:44 - They showed up one day and gave me a housewarming gift, a life-size duplicate of Coco, a gorilla from the San Diego Zoo.

00:03:52 - It was huge, I had to clamp it in the front.

00:03:56 - Seat of my Jeep to take it home.

00:03:58 - Ozzy stayed, Sharon got bored and left, and Ozzy and I had a couple of drinks and were improvising.

00:04:05 - We started singing, playing games, and wrote Close My Eyes Forever.

00:04:12 - This song was featured on Lita Ford's third solo album, Lita.

00:04:16 - Produced by Mike Chapman, it was a breakthrough for Ford, whose first hit came with the album's first single, Kiss Me Deadly, the songs.

00:04:26 - Marked a year of difference, with Kiss Me Deadly peaking in June 1988 in Close My

00:04:31 - Eyes Forever in June of the following year.

00:04:34 - Both songs were fueled by MTV exposure, and the photogenic Ford attracted the network's main audience of young men.

00:04:43 - Today Lita, who continues to play in bars in the United States, remembers those times.

00:04:49 - Ozzie's first Top 10 hits because of Black Sabbath and because of the darkness, a whole theme that they carried behind their music, they could not go Top 10 with their music.

00:05:03 - And when Close My Eyes Forever came out on my record, it went top 10 in the United States.

00:05:11 - Sharon was my manager at the time, and really my relationship was with Sharon, not with Ozzy.

00:05:16 - So sometimes when Sharon would come to see me, she would bring Ozzy along.

00:05:22 - And this particular time, I just bought a new house, and they wanted to bring me a housewarming gift. A duplicate of Coco the Gorilla from the San Diego Zoo. It was the gorilla that had the kitten and the kitten was his buddy and he would carry this kitten everywhere. So it was a life-size duplicate of a freaking gorilla holding a kitten.

00:05:46 - Ozzy and I started playing pool and I took a break from recording and we had some drinks

00:05:53 - And some time was going by, and we were just goofing off.

00:05:57 - And Sharon got bored, and she left.

00:06:01 - She says, you want to play pool?

00:06:03 - Go on and play pool.

00:06:05 - So we played pool.

00:06:07 - And when Sharon left, we went into this little studio off to the side of the pool table area.

00:06:14 - And we wrote, close my eyes forever.

00:06:16 - There was a little amp in the room.

00:06:19 - And I grabbed a guitar and plugged it in.

00:06:39 - And then Ozzy starts singing.

00:06:52 - I think he was in trouble with his marriage and I think what he was saying was real.

00:07:22 - So, I think he was in trouble and I think he was singing from his heart.

00:07:27 - I didn't really put two and two together until after I had heard him singing it, Billy sang it myself and thought, wow, I wonder where this came from.

00:07:37 - And later on, sure enough, Rich was in trouble at that time, probably the worst it had ever been.

00:07:44 - And they still stayed together right on.

00:07:52 - Baby, I get so scared inside and I don't really understand

00:08:07 - Is it love that's calling my mind or was it fantasy?

00:08:13 - Heaven is in the palm of my hand and it's waiting here for you

00:08:21 - What am I supposed to do when a child in the president?

00:08:31 - If I close my eyes forever

00:08:38 - Will it all remain unchanged?

00:08:46 - If I close my eyes forever

00:08:51 - We'll all remain the same

00:09:02 - Sometimes it's hard to hold on, so hard to hold on to my dreams

00:09:09 - It isn't all we can think of when we face the farthest with me

00:09:16 - And I could drag her, extend me to her

00:09:21 - And taste the blood from my blood

00:09:24 - And when we sleep, would you shelter me

00:09:28 - In your warm and darkened grave?

00:09:33 - If I close my eyes forever

00:09:40 - Will it all remain unchanged?

00:09:46 - If I close my eyes forever

00:09:55 - Will it all remain the same?

00:10:06 - Will you ever take me?

00:10:10 - No, I just can't take the pain

00:10:16 - Never would you ever trust me

00:10:24 - No, I'd never feel the same

00:10:46 - I know I've been so hard on you

00:11:11 - I know I've told you lies

00:11:20 - If I could help just one more wish

00:11:27 - I might become one from my eyes

00:11:35 - If I close my eyes forever

00:11:41 - Will it all remain unchanged?

00:11:49 - If I close my eyes forever

00:11:57 - Will it all remain the same?

00:12:03 - Oh yeah, oh yeah

00:12:07 - Use your eyes, use your eyes

00:12:13 - You gotta use your eyes for me